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ACE DEMOCRACY. 



Vallandigham and Frank Pierce. 

THEIR TRUE RELATION AND OBJECTS. 



VALLANDIGHAM— HE IS ENDORSED. 



, Llf THEY DENOUNCE 

SES.j.E.iiiiiiii".B.iran 

AND THE 

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 



NO CENSURE OF REBELS. 



It is a remarkable fact — one which has not escaped the obser- 
vation of several of the most distinguished philosophical writers 
of the age — that a man who assumes a bold, reckless, and even 
infamous position, as a leader of a school of thought, or faction 
in government, does not fail to secure the warmest approval and 
greeting of his followers. 

Two explanations of the fact have been given. The first is, 
that too few "pause to consider" the errors which may arise from 
ideas fundamental!}- correct, forgetting that "a poisonous bud or 
flower may be engrafted on a stem which springs from a healthy 
root." This class, while often sincere, look more at names than 
at things, at the garb of their party and sect, than at the body it 
may conceal, and the motive which it may hide. 

The second explanation has its origin in the debasement, which 
not unfrequently controls and overlays the human heart. .Men 
becoming corrupt, dragging down all the higher powers of mind 
and body, voluntarily become the harnessed steeds of folly and 
wrong on "the broad highways of life." And hence they not 
only err themselves, but " have pleasure in them" that dash far- 



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thest and most madly out into the paths of folly and wrong, — 
whether that wrong is individual or social, moral or political. 

These explanations of the causes of human actions appropri- 
ately apply to the eulogies and endorsements which Clement L. 
Vallandighara has received from no inconsiderable number of the 
American people. For never has he been the utterer of high 
and pure political truths, in the style and tone of an accomplish- 
ed scholar and philosophical statesman. But on the contrary, 
while claiming to be distinctly and pre-eminently a Democrat, 
availing himself of the almost magic influence of this venerated 
term, he has been the mere traducer of his political opponents, 
and the licentious libeller of his government, even amid her he- 
roic struggle for existence and perpetuity. 

In fact, five months before the stars and stripes drooped in the 
sadness of their fall on Fort Sumter, on the 2d of November, 
1860, he declared in the Cooper Institute, New York, " if any one 
or more of the States of this Union should at any time secede, for 
reasons, the sufficiency and justice of which, before God, and the 
great tribunal of history, they alone may judge, much as I should 
deplore it, I never would, as a Representative in the Congress 
of the United States, vote one dollar of money whereby one 
drop of American blood should be shed in a civil war." 

It thus appears that he was in speech and purpose, an origi- 
nal foe of his country — an enemy of his Government during 
the Buchanan administration, aud prior to the last Presidential 
election. 

And most persistently, as a member of Congress, did he ad- 
here to his determination, and develop his enmity to the great 
fabric reared bj T our Fathers. These are a few of his many nefa- 
rious doings. 

On the 7th day of January, 1861, he voted against the re- 
solution of thanks to Major Anderson, for his noble and 
patriotic conduct at Fort Moultrie and Fort Sumter. 

On the 16th of January, 1861— 

HE PROPOSED TO DIVIDE THE UNION INTO FOUR SECTIONS— AND WENT 
IN FOR THE AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION. 

On the 16th of July, 1861— 

HE OPPOSED LEGISLATION FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE REBEL- 
LION. 

On the 3d of August, 1861— 

HE REFUSED TO THANK THE OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS OF THE BULL 
RUN BATTLE FOR THEIR CODRAGE AND DEEDS OF PATRIOTISM. 



On the 5th of August, 1861— 

HE DID WHAT HE COULD TO DEFEAT THE BILL INCREASING THE PAY 
OF THE SOLDIERS, AND SUSTAINING THE ACTS, <kc, OF THE PRESIDENT 
CALLING THEM OUT. 

On the 6th of August, 1861— 

HE OPPOSED STOPPING PRIVATE COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE REBELS. 

On the 9th of June, 1862— 

HE WAS UNWILLING THAT OUR SOLDIERS SHOULD SUBSIST TO ANY 
EXTENT ON REBEL PROPERTY. 

On the 16th of December, 1862— 

HE OPPOSED RESOLUTIONS OF H. B. WRIGHT, A DEMOCRAT OF PENN- 
SYLVANIA, DECLARING THE REBELLION CAUSELESS, AND DENYING THE 
RIGHT OF SECESSSION. 

On the 26th of January, 1863— 

HE WAS AGAINST THE RAISING OF SOLDIERS TO CARRY ON THE WAR. 

On the 3d of March, 1863— 

HE OPPOSED THE JOINT RESOLUTION OF CONGRESS AGINST FOREIGN 
INTERVENTION IN BEHALF OF THE REBELS. 

Comment on these acts would be useless. 

None, certainly, could have been more unpatriotic. Others of 
equal, if not greater, baseness could easily be produced. 

But out of Congress his words and conduct were no less de- 
void of " love of country" than in it.* 

Leaving Washington city, he appeared in Dayton, Ohio, and 

THERE REFERRED TO THE SOLDIERS OF THE NATION AS " MEN OF 
BLOOD." 

He presented himself at Hamilton, Ohio, and "denounced 

General Order No. 15 of Col. Carrington, against the car- 

k^^/uc ky ing of arms." and -urged resistance to any effort which 

MIGHT BE MADE TO ENFORCE- IT. 

HE VISITED MOUNT VERNON— HE DENOUNCED IN 
LOWEST TERMS GENERAL ORDER NO. 38 OF GEN. 
BURNSIDE, 

Referring to this order in the speech at Mount Vernon, he said 
that " military marshals were about to be appointed in every dis- 

* For a full and thorough examination of his conduct, sustained by references to 
"the Congressional Globe and Appendix," and other authentic and genuine publica- 
tions, see a sixteen page pamphlet entitled, "Tfu Peace Democracy^ alias Copperheads. 
Their Record.'' This contains, also, the Order of Gen. Burnside to which Vail au- 
di gh am urged resistance, extracts from the opinion of Judge Leavitt, and the pro- 
ceedings of "the Democracy " of New York and other States approving of Vallan- 
diirham. 



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trict, who would act for the purpose of restricting the liberties of 
the people;" but that " he was a freeman;" that he "did not 
ask David Tod, or Abraham Lincoln, or Ambrose E. Burnside 
for his right to speak as he had done, and was doing. That his 
authority for so doing was higher than General Orders No. 38 — 
it was General Orders No. 1 — the Constitution." 

" That General Orders No. 38 was a base usurpation of arbitrary 
power ; that he had the most supreme contempt for such power. 
He despised it, spit upon it ; he trampled it under his feet." 

He then urged the people to refuse submission to it. He pro- 
nounced the war, '''■wicked, cruel, and unnecessary, ke." M 

Not for any temperate and judicious discussion of the meas- 
ures of the Government, but for this inflammatory, licentious, 
and insurrectionary traduction of its purposes, and for the direct- 
vindictive, and unjustifiable assailment of the Order of General 
Burnside, which was framed and intended only to operate against 
"traitors" and those who sympathized with them, he was arrested, 
regularly tried, condemned and sentenced. Subsequently, a judge 
of his own State, one of "the old Jackson school of Democrats," 
sustained the action of the military authorities, and refused, after 
full argument on an application made by Hon. George E. Pugh, 
to issue, on his behalf, a writ of habeas corpus, f Both depart- 
ments of the Government — civil as well as military' — thus con- 
curred in the judgment which declared him an enemy of his 
nation — one who should be excluded from its protection and im- 
munities, and who should be incarcerated or exiled. With this 
dethronement of their chief, the "self-styled Democracy" of the 
land could not be contented. Of so just a disposition of the 
champion of the Southern Confederacy, "her sympathizers" 
above Mason and Dixon's line would not approve, and from 
both classes in many parts of the free States issued cries of dis- 
tress, vollies of denunciation, and columns of vituperation. J 



* Testimony of Capt. H. R. Hill, 115th Regiment Ohio Volunteers, p. 13-15, in 
trial of Vallandigham before the Military Commission. Ricky & Carroll, Cincinnati. 

f Not satisfied with the action of the court martini and decision of Jodge Leavitt, 
Vallandigham petitioned the Supreme Conrt of the United States for a 
as to bring their action before it. On the 15th of February, 18S4, Justice Wayne de- 
livered the opinion of the Court refusing the certiorari. So that this court also sus- 
tained the action of the Government. What will the enemy of Ins country next do? 

% From the decision of the civil and military tribunals, the friends of Vallandig- 
ham appealed to the people of bis Stat", and selected hirn as their candidate for Gov- 
ernor. The people responded by a majority of over use hundred thousand against 
him. The heroes of our battle-fields were almost unanimous in their vote! For 
rebels in arms, and their champions in civil life, they have no smiles. Let the people 
of fc>w Hampshirp remember this. 



At the same time they engaged in extravagant laudations of 
their unpatriotic leader. Vociferously they sang his " unim- 
agined worth ;" earnestly they shouted his " supposed glories." 

Cox and Pugh, in Ohio, were in paroxysms of blended rage 
and affection for the sacrifice of the fancied champion of free- 
dom. Their allies all over the West were aroused. 

But not to the West alone was the denunciation and eulogy 
confined. "The contagion" seized the copperheads of the Mid- 
dle States and of the North. The Granite State, old New Hamp- 
shire, felt its unpatriotic influence, and the New Hampshire 
Patriot, fierce and frenzied as a prostrated gladiator, at once as- 
sailed the "powers that be" for the arrest of Vallandigham, 
declaring that, " It ivould seem thit our authorities at Washington 
are bent upon adding civil war at the North to the lasting embarrass- 
ments and calamities of the country.'" This pacific sheet went even 
beyond this not unsuggestive observation, and affirmed that "if 
such ivas their desire, they could not pursue a course better calculated 
to effect it." 

And then it did all which the courage of its editors and con- 
trollers would permit them to do, towards stirring up its readers 
to the performance of deeds of violence and blood, by proclaim- 
ing the action of the Government "amost provoking outrage upon 
the feelings of the Democracy.'' 1 — New Hampshire Patriot, Wednes- 
day, May 13, 1863. 

It was not content, however, with this effort — others followed 
in quick and eager haste. 

In a subsequent issue it styled "the proceedings in the case of 
Vallandigham a gross outrage upon the Constitution itself," and 
referred to the action of the brave and untarnished Burnside as 
"atrocious," and to the decision of the learned and incorruptible 
Judge Leavitt as "disgraceful servility." — Neiu Hampshire Pa- 
riot, Wednesday, May 27, 1863. 

And here, let it be observed, that while the conductors of 
this paper — the organ of Pierce, et id omne genus — thus emitted 
their indignation "hot and livid as burning lava," against so no- 
ble a general and able a jurist, and against Abraham Lincoln 
and his Cabinet, they had only words and emotions soft and gen- 
tle as the zephyrs of summer for Jeff. Davis, and Breckenridge, 
and Lee, and their associates "of deepest and darkest guilt." 

And, never, not even to this hour, has "the New Hampshire 
Patriot" held up the Rebellion of these conspirators and traitors as 
a most provoking outrage upon the feelings of the Democracy. " 

Because those engaged in this overshadowing crime of the 



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nineteenth century are the chivalric and tried friends of the 
"outraged " modern Democracy ; and it must not be forgotten 
that it is only by a prospective alliance with them that it can in 
the future hope to regain its ancient position of place and power, 
and fasten itself once more, as a vampire, upon the life-blood of 
the nation. 

But the New Hampshire Patriot has not been alone in its en- 
dorsement of Vallandigham and its denunciation of the Admin- 
stration. 

On the 4th day of July, 1863, the self-styled Democracy met in 
Concord. 

It was the Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence — 
that unrivalled protest against British tyranny and wrongs. 
What an hour was that for condemnation of a Rebellion, which 
has dared boast in the ear of the world, and on even the Western 
Continent, that the ideas ot the founders of the Republic were 
"fundamentally wrong" and that " Slavery — subordination of the 
inferior to the superior race, is a natural and moral condition ! " 

It seemed as if it was a day carved out of the great mass of 
time by the hand of Deity for the dispproval of these sentiments 
and of those who inaugurated the gory strife of battle, to establish 
■a Government in which they should have a controlling influence. 

But not against these were the maledictions of the "immense 
council of the Democracy " hurled. It stood ready to clasp 
the murderers of thousands of America's noblest sons, with the 
warm u r ra*p of that affection which has its origin in similarity of 
principles and feelings generated by vaulting ambition, and sus- 
tained b}< "the cohesive power of public plunder." 

And hence it eulogized Vallandigham while it traduced the 
Government.* 

This it did in its seventh'resolution in these words, viz : 

" We denounce (he arrest by military force, for an alleged military offence, trial by a mil- 
itary tribunal and military sentence, of Hon. Clement L. Vallandigham of Ohio, while in 
the exercise of his home-bred right mid high constitutional privilege of free speech, as an 
usurpation of power mid a violation of the most sacred principles of our government. We 
: of Ohio if our cordial concurrence in the noble declaration of princi- 
ples by their lati Slate ( 'onveniion. tendt r to them our sympathy in their \ lie and 
urge them 'o vindicate tin' cause of Constitutional liberty for the nation, as ivell as the honor 
and rights of their own State, by the triumphant election of Mr. Vallandigham as Governor. 
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" We offer the thanks of th>~ Democracy of this Slate to Gov. Seymour of New Fork, for 
his manly and statsemanlike defend of personal rights, State sovereignty mid Constitutional 

government, in his official message, mid in his recent letter relative to the arrest if Mr. Val- 
andigham " — New Hampshire Patriot, July 8, 18(53. 

These words were followed by "threb cheers for Vallandig- 
ham." But no t'heers went up from the members ot' that Coun- 
cil for the heroes of our army and navy, or lor the grand vic- 

* Pierce ia his speech denominated him — the " martyr of tree speech." 



tory of Gettysburg, and the disaster and overthrow of Gen. Lee, 
intelligence of which reached Concord before they had separated. 
That intelligence seemed to "come over them as the cloud 01 
the tempest," and it was withheld.* 

More, certainly, cannot be required to connect the Democracy 
of New Hampshire'' with the deeds and words of Vallandigham, 
and to establish their hostility to their country. 

Once it may have been a proud, noble organization — to-day it 
is the embodiment of abject selfishness, the eulogist of political 
crimes and errors, and the open aud secret patron of disloyalty 
and treason. 

Where is the true patriot who will sustain it? Who is the 
real lover of his country who will vote for Harrington and 
Vaughan ? 

In a little while the response will come from the polls. May 
it be a response which will thrill with gladness the multitudes 
of our noble arm}' and navy, and proclaim to the hordes of Rebel- 
dom that ''the Union must and shall.be preserved;" and pour 
upon the ears of hostile nations the assurance that no foreign 
influence will be permitted in our grand contest. 

Up! friends of liberty and of man, of justice and right, of 
order and law ; up ! and at your foes everywhere, by all the might 
of truth, of facts, of arguments and of appeals ! 

* It is said that the intelligence of Mead's victory arrived in Concord on the 4th 
of July last, before the " immense council of Democrats ". had separated. Indeed, 
this fact is indisputable. Now, there are two telegraphic lines in Concord — the 
American and the Vermont and Boston. The operator on the one line is a Republi- 
can — on the other a " Democrat." The former, it is asserted, took the dispatch an- 
nouncing the victory to the office of a Union paper — "The Independent Democrat" — 
where it was promptly printed. The latter, it is stated, hastened with the informati- 
on of the grand triumph of our arms to the front of the State House, where "the 
council was assembled," but* it was promptly suppressed — no announcement of it 
was made — it was pronounced a Black Republican lie, etc. All expressions of ap- 
proval and shouts of joy were reserved by that council for the " foes of the Govern- 
ment." 

Let not this fact be forgotten. It cries out in trumpet tones against Pierce and his 
associates and followers. 






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